A renowned feminist, Kishwar Naheed is the enfant terrible of Urdu poetry. Defiant, outspoken, eminently self-aware and acutely political, she has always delighted in cocking a snook at the Establishment - both literary and otherwise. A former civil servant and editor of a prestigious monthly magazine in Pakistan, she has written extensively on women's issues, crimes against women and the images of women in media and textbooks.

Click here for a superb and enchanting selection of poetry from this great poet.